Will an UDFA will make the Chargers for the 22nd season in a row?

The Los Angeles Chargers have been a lock every season for the past two decades to have at least one undrafted rookie make the 53-man roster. It’s a remarkable streak that this year’s undrafted free agents will look to continue.

Chargers open training camp today, and no one has done a better job of finding buried treasure: Chargers have had at least one undrafted rookie free agent make their 53-man opening-day roster for a NFL-high 21 straight seasons.

There are a couple different ways you can look at this. It sounds great in August that an undrafted free agent has made the roster for 21 straight seasons. That’s likely going to happen for a 22nd straight season, too. The Chargers are fair and they truly will put the best players on the roster and the field.

On the other hand, it could be due to poor drafting and the lack of depth on the roster year after year. For a few seasons there, general manager Tom Telesco was trading away picks to move up in the second round. We all can agree that those picks backfired.

Nobody is saying that the team was going to draft an All-Pro in the fourth or fifth round, but there’s a good chance whoever they would’ve picked those years would have made the roster and at least been able to contribute in some way.

Warren Sharp weighed in:

Chargers have fielded arguably the most talented roster over the last 5 years. In that time:► 3rd most games lost to injury► 4th worst record in 1-score gms► 1 playoff trip & 1 win v BengalsEither the unluckiest team ever or a serious top-down issue w Management & Coaching https://t.co/8fqb5XeKrC

That’s a tough pill to swallow. That’s also the reality. Sharp also said that no team has lost more one-score games over the last decade than the Chargers.

Will an undrafted free agent make the roster? I believe so – likely a corner or a tight end. Will Anthony Lynn and Co. buck the injury/bad luck that this team has been dealt year after year? That remains to be seen.

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